"The planet does not need more 'successful people'. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds. It needs people to live well in their places. It needs people with moral courage willing to join the struggle to make the world habitable and humane and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture is the set." ~ H. H. The Dalai Lama

From QUOTES board - "The planet does not need more 'successful people'. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds. It needs people to live well in their places. It needs people with moral courage willing to join the struggle to make the world habitable and humane and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture is the set. " ~H.H.The Dalai Lama

Judge not lest ye be judged. Success is the systematic realization of predetermined worthwhile goals. If you want more peace, healing, restoring, storytelling, love, habitability, and humanity set it as a personal goal. Then work systematically to achieve it. That is success. Please do not expect or even desire cultural approval or support for your internal goals. As the world unwinds it has its own path; to a great deal outside anyone's control. If you feel that success in our culture is set at something you do not want, rather than focusing on judging others, make internal changes in yourself.
Our current society has more problems trying to fix the world rather than getting individuals to find their own success.

"The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. but it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of every kind. it needs people who live well in their places. it needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture has defined it." — David Orr

True, not just for days, but for hours, moments, seconds'. So cherish NOW, for the millisecond in which we live, will never happen again, so make sure what you are doing NOW is not something you will regret tomorrow, because no matter how much you wish to, you can't take this moment back.. -Callie